I recently registered my work email with a company that shall not be named in an effort to receive a 20 percent off coupon. While I received the coupon, I also found myself receiving somewhere around 10 emails per week from this company.

After a few weeks, I had no choice but to unsubscribe from this email listing. Though it did give me the option to minimize email settings, the overwhelming amount I already received was such a turn off that I unsubscribed completely.

This has happened time and again with countless other mail listings, and I know that I’m not the only one burdened with email after email. Apparently this is such a common occurrence that eMarketer was able to conduct a survey that complied the top reasons why people tend to unsubscribe from email lists.

The additional reasons were as follows: 21 percent report that the emails were not relevant to them; 19 percent received too many emails from a specific company; 19 percent complained that the emails were always trying to sell something; 17 percent stated the content of the emails were boring, repetitive, and not interesting to them.

Sixteen percent unsubscribed because they do not have the time to read the emails; 13 percent stated they receive the same ads and promotions in the email that they receive in print mail (through direct mail, print magazines, newspapers, etc.)

Eleven percent stated that some emails can be too focused on the company’s needs and not enough on the customer’s needs; 10 percent felt that certain emails seemed geared towards other people’s needs and not their own. Another 10 percent did not like the appearance of certain emails, stating that they were too cluttered and sloppy.

An additional 10 percent didn’t trust the email to provide all of the information necessary to make purchasing decisions. Finally, one percent claimed “other” reasoning as the main cause.

Fully 7.0 percent unsubscribed from certain email listings because they said emails did not look good on their smartphones. This is important for marketers to keep in the back of their minds.

Taylor is a Staff Writer at The American Genius and has a bachelor's degree in communication studies from Illinois State University. She is currently pursuing freelance writing and hopes to one day write for film and television.

With Polymail, email is so much more than mail, and with their last update, it’s so much more than so much more than mail: it’s a clever, intuitive sales enablement tool that will jumpstart productivity for your entire team.

It’s safe to say email has never been so elegant.

Polymail, “the modern email client, redesigned,” continues to redesign its capabilities. The email platform’s latest update added some pretty sweet features to its already impressive suite of tools.

You could already track the performance of your emails with detailed insights into open and reply rates, but now you can send personalized emails to multiple prospects at the same time and access real-time statistics for each custom message.

Not only does this save you loads of time, it also helps you optimize each campaign on the fly by benchmarking performance of each email.

It’d be a shame to let all of these personalization efforts go to waste by losing track of who you’re talking to. That’s why Polymail lets you build thorough contact profiles for every prospect you talk to. These profiles include social links, job descriptions, and a complete history of all your past interactions so you can stay up to speed with every potential customer, every second.

To be sure you don’t miss a crucial moment, Polymail sends you instant alerts whenever your messages are opened, clicked or downloaded.

For a holistic view of all your campaigns, you can easily monitor all email activity in a live feed, too.

You can get accelerate your whole sales team with Polymail for Teams: send and track campaigns as a team, save shared message templates for anyone on your team to edit and use, and find your top performers using Team Analytics.

Why settle for boring email when you can have outreach, collaboration, and analytics in one place?

You literally have no excuse: Polymail is available for desktop, mobile and tablet so whatever device you’re using you can keep up with your messages, tracking notifications, prospects and customers. “I don’t want to pay, what if it’s crap?” Also an invalid argument. There’s a free 14-day trial if you want to check it out, and a free 21-day trial for the Teams edition.

You already know that building a brand (for yourself OR a brokerage) is a lot of work. There’s not only fierce competition, but there’s a lot of ground to cover.

A huge portion of that ground is being present on social media. This doesn’t just mean consistently posting content that is important and relevant to your brand, but it also means keeping tabs on who is following you and engaging with said content.

That’s why Metrics Coffee is here to help. With this new tool, it helps you keep track of your social media metrics by sending you a detailed email to your inbox every Monday morning.

So, how does it work? First, you enter your email to register (the first month is free, woot woot!) and then you attach all of your social media handles to your account.

Then, every Monday morning, you’ll receive an email from Metrics Coffee with a detailed look at your personal metrics. It’ll show the number of followers on each specific platform, and how much your follower count has gone up (or down) within the last week.

Platforms that it currently tracks are: Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, ConvertKit, and ButtonDown. If there’s a platform that isn’t included that you’d like them to track (we would suggest LinkedIn as it is overtly missing), you can request that they integrate said platforms.

“I recently become an independent developer (quit my job!) and started making courses and conducting workshops. I get most of my audience from my twitter and YouTube channel, so I’ve become more intentional about building an audience, said Metrics Coffee maker, Siddharth Kshetrapal. “[I] started tracking [the metrics] with pen and paper along with my morning coffee, but I would forget doing this all the time! Realized I need it to be a push not pull. And that’s why I built this product! It keeps a track of my social accounts and sends me an email every Monday; including my tiny newsletter.”

Much like one needs their Monday morning coffee, Metrics Coffee is designed to give you a rush of adrenaline and inspiration that will help you start your work week. It’s such a simple concept that we wonder why this hasn’t been around for a decade already.

7 signs that your website is out of date

Just as styles of clothes come and go, website styles can date your business. How can you tell if your design is stuck in the past? Here are seven things that TNW wants you to consider about your design style:

1. Sans serif or not? With 4K in full effect, serif types are coming back into vogue. A serif typeface is one with small lines attached to the end of a letter.

Sans serif typefaces, those without those small lines, were introduced for readability on mobile devices which used to have much lower resolution.

2. Are you constantly changing colors to keep up with trends? Although the “best” color for marketing changes annually, it’s not really about what color you use. It’s about consistent design with color saturation.

3. Where do you work? Sitting at a desk waiting for inspiration is a thing of the past. Get out in the world and work on your tablet to enhance your ideas and take pictures to bring more elements into your design.

4. What’s your perspective? Look through your social media account and look for variety in your photos and posts. Find a new angle for photos and text to give more interesting content.

5. Are you using trends to brand your company? Coloring books may be the hot ticket item in 2016 and 2017, but the population has already moved on to the next thing, so why would you hop on an old trend and send out branded coloring books?

Use trends in marketing, but not for branding.

6. What’s your design style? Flat design is a trend that is going by the wayside. Get one step ahead by using elements to add depth to your site.

7. Do your templates look like templates? Word Press is great for small businesses, but when you use one of the templates without any customization, you look like you don’t know what you’re doing.

Spend a few dollars and get some help implementing your own images and graphics to fully adapt your site.

TNW assumes that your site has already been on the cutting edge. We’re still seeing a number of small businesses who don’t have much content about their business.

Having a website is vital in today’s economy, and even if you’re the only one in your community that provides your service or product, you cannot expect to stay on top by just having a minimal website.

Make it a part of your marketing strategy to update your site weekly and keep your customers engaged.